Macaranga hypoleuca (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Macaranga hypoleuca (Rchb. f. & Zoll.) Müll. Arg.
- Protologue: DC., Prodr. 15(2): 992 (1866).
Vernacular names
- White mahang (En)
- Indonesia: mahang kapur (general)
- Malaysia: mahang puteh (Peninsular), sedaman, sedaman puteh (Sabah)
- Thailand: law.
Distribution
Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo.
Uses
In Peninsular Malaysia, a decoction is used as a febrifuge, expectorant and anti-spasmodic. The wood is sometimes used for implements.
Observations
- A small to medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole up to 40 cm in diameter, young branches white.
- Leaves deeply 3-lobed, lobes c. 15 cm × 7.5 cm, usually brilliantly white-waxy below, peltate.
- Male flowers in elongate, lax panicles up to 30 cm long, with 1 stamen, female flowers usually with 3-celled ovary, styles very short, reflexed.
- Fruit smooth, usually 3-lobed, with 2 raised glandular patches at the apex of each cell.
M. hypoleuca is locally common in evergreen, usually secondary forest up to 1000 m altitude, rarely as high as 2400 m.
Selected sources
19, 20, 22, 121, 194, 731, 883, 990.
Main genus page
Authors
- S. Aggarwal